Seacoast Scene 8-8-2019

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This one’s for the kids There is no better place to be a kid than at Hampton Beach — that’s the tagline for the annual Hampton Beach Children’s Festival, which takes over the entire village from Aug. Larry Marsolais 12 to Aug. 16.

This five-day festival is filled with all sorts of kid-friendly activities and events.

Free ice cream and balloons are all ready and waiting for the kids. One highlight of the week is on Friday, Aug. 16, at 12:30, when Mr. and Mrs. Santa Clause will be appearing at Sand and Santa at 63 Ocean Boulevard, Hampton Beach.

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You have to put this week down on your calendar and set aside some time to attend this amazing event.

There’s also an opportunity to write a great kid’s slogan for Hampton Beach.

The one that is chosen will be used for the “Summer 2020” bumper sticker, and the person who wrote it will win a free bike!

As always, I would love to hear from our readers. Feel free to call anytime at 603-935-5096 to discuss local issues or to place an ad.

Larry Marsolais is the general manager of the Seacoast Scene and the former president of the Hampton Rotary Club.

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EVENTS TO CHECK OUT AUGUST 8 - 14, 2019, AND BEYOND

Remember the pioneers

Join the Hampton Historical Society history book group on Sunday, Aug. 11, at 4 p.m., at the Tuck Museum in Hampton, to discuss history that had been forgotten. “We’ll be talking about a part of U.S. history that fell between the cracks,” said Barbara Tosiano, who leads the book group. “In school, we study the Revolutionary War and then pick up in the 1800s. But what happened in between? The book The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers who Brought the American Ideal West, by David McCullough, answers that question.” Tosiano, who prepares a food item for each meeting that relates to the book being discussed, is making buckeyes (balls of peanut butter dipped in chocolate) since Ohio is the Buckeye State.

All are welcome to attend.

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Enjoy beer, barbecue and down-home music at Country Fest, with four area groups each offering a unique take on the genre. Ashley Dawn Band appeals to fans of Linda Ronstadt in her Heart Like a Wheel days, Texas Pete offers a bit of Skynyrd and Marshall Tucker, Joshua Incident is named after Gram Parsons’ final resting place, and Country Roads covers songs by Luke Bryan, Tim McGraw and Johnny Cash. It happens Saturday, Aug. 10, 2 p.m., at Governors Inn in Rochester. See governorsinn.com.

Late-night play

Toe Jam Puppet Band

The Lane Memorial Library’s Children’s Finale will be on Aug. 8 at 6 p.m. The family event will be held outdoors at the Tuck Field in Hampton. Come see The Toe Jam Puppet Band, whose shows feature singing and dancing to original songs, shadow puppetry and storytelling. This event is free and open to the public. Ice cream will be served. There will be a variety of games, lawn sports and other entertainment. Rain date is Tuesday, Aug. 13, at 6 p.m.

Weekend Writers’ Productions presents Final Analysis at The Players’ Ring Theatre in Portsmouth as part of the theater’s Late Night Series, with showtimes on Friday, Aug. 9, and Saturday, Aug. 10, at 10 p.m., and Sunday, Aug. 11, at 9 p.m. The original play by Lawrence Hennessy follows a therapist who stops caring about helping his clients until two women from his past return and turn his world upside down.

Tickets cost $12 for seniors and students and $14 for adults. Visit playersring.org.

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Just

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by Caleb Jagoda

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FUZZY FACTS

Todd Wagner, a third-generation farmer at Applecrest Farm Orchards in North Hampton, is passionate about farming and, specifically, farming peaches. Wagner clocks in seven-day work weeks of sun-up to sun-down farming during the most hectic parts of the growing season. During these stretches, Wagner is doing everything in his power to prepare a happy, seemingly effortless product to families who often use picking fruit as a time of refuge and bonding.

“Today’s modern society, everyone’s busy and it’s all about convenience and speed and one-stop shopping,” Wagner said. “I think taking the time to just sort of put it on reset and come out with the family and kind of slow down and take a deep breath and enjoy the resources that you have right in your back door ... you can’t replicate that anywhere else.”

This relaxed atmosphere Wagner cherishes doesn’t come without hours of hard work and plenty of elbow grease — especially when it comes to peaches.

“They’re pretty labor-intensive,” Wagner said. “They require hand thinning, which basically means every single branch produces several dozen fruit and you have to go in and basically hand thin and space them out so they get the proper amount of light and airflow and nutrients and water so that they size up to a harvestable girth.”

Giff Burnap, owner of Butternut Farm

in Farmington, said that the delicate nature of peaches require his workers and him to spend a man-hour per tree per year just to thin the crop down, as well as annual pruning in the spring right before bloom.

Tendercrop Farms owner Matt Kozazacki agreed, saying that being thorough is the key to keeping the product at his three Tendercrop Farms locations (in Dover, New Hampshire, and Newbury and Wenham, Mass.) fruitful.

“The most important thing to growing is, ‘all of the above,’” he said. “Making sure they have water, fertility, protection from wildlife … protecting them, thinning and picking. If you skip one step, you may as well skip them all.”

All three farmers agreed that New Hampshire and southern Maine are the farthest north peach farmers can expect to be successful, as peaches thrive in consistent weather that warms when they’re ready to ripen.

“Peaches are kind of a southern crop, so they like this hot weather a lot, they just soak it up and it makes the peaches nice and sweet,” Burnap said. “You can really notice a difference, on a year that’s it’s kind of cool and overcast, the peaches aren’t as sweet. But if you get a lot of sunshine and a lot of heat, they certainly do have a sweeter flavor to them.”

Peaches also depend on favorable winter conditions in order for their trees to survive through the cold season. While the trees can be annually productive for around 20 years and start to produce a healthy amount of peaches four or five years after they’re planted, this can all be uprooted by a myriad of factors.

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It’s prime peach season, and you can find the juicy fruit already picked at farmers markets and farm stands, or you can pick your own at a couple of Seacoast area farms. No matter how you get your hands on some fresh, ripe peaches, here’s what you need to know to make the most of peach season.

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7 and that’s when you start seeing more severe winterkill,” Wagner said. “In the spring, obviously there’s no snow, and if you get a frost once the buds are developed or are blossoming or whatever it may be, nothing you can do about it. If you reach a certain temperature, you’re kind of screwed.”

Other factors that affect peach growth include receiving both ample rain and pollination from local bees. Yet these components can cancel each other out: during extremely windy, rainy periods, the bees may not feel comfortable leaving their hive, hurting the peach’s chances of developing a bountiful fruit set.

This year, the three farmers said that the spring weather hurt all of their fruits significantly. Fortunately, summer has turned things around with late rains and a streak of hot weather that has expedited ripening.

Peach season, as a result, is looking to be a strong one for all three farms.

At Applecrest Farm Orchards, Wagner and his family own seven acres of peach farms and harvest over 65,000 pounds of peaches each season. Meanwhile, Butternut Farm has four acres of peach trees with around 725 peach trees that average at least 100 pounds of peaches per tree. Burnap said that they originally had two and a half acres of peaches, but over the years expanded to four acres.

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With all the thousands of pounds of peaches these local farms produce, families will need to know what to look for when buying and picking peaches. Wagner and Burnap described very distinct characteristics for how to tell when a peach is perfectly ripe, from its color to its size to even how it feels.

“What you look for is first and foremost the right color,” Wagner said. “If it still has a sort of little tinge of green or a paleness, that’s the first indicator that it’s not ripe, so you’re looking for that sort of deep orangeish. I mean, every variety exhibits different characteristics, but you’re looking for a deep, well-developed blush on the skin.”

“Even if that peach is a little firm still,” said Burnap, “if it’s orangey-yellow on the backside, it will soften up at home within a couple days and be a really good eating peach.”

Wagner described a trick he uses to identify whether a peach is truly ripe.

“It’s a very, very challenging one, but you can sort of feel the shoulder of the fruit and if you very gently just put your hand around it and press very slightly on the shoulder of the fruit and there’s just a touch of give, you know you’re getting ready for harvest time,” he said.

Both Applecrest Farm Orchards and Butternut Farm have pick-your-own peaches, which they said can be rare because of the delicate nature of the fruit.

“What makes this farm unique is that really the only way we sell anything is through pick-your-own channels, so it’s really a destination for people to come and visit,” said Burnap. “We work hard to provide a good New England farm atmosphere, a nice, neat and tidy farm and obviously the best quality fruit and easiest picking conditions that we can create.”

“There’s really nothing like pickyour-own peaches,” Wagner said. “It’s an absolutely beautiful group of trees, it smells absolutely incredible and it’s just a beautiful thing and people really love it, so maybe against our best judgment and interest continue to offer it.”

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Burnap said that there are two categories that most peaches can be split into: freestone and clingstone. Freestone peaches, he said, easily fall off the pit and are great for baking, canning or freezing in that they’re easy to work with in the kitchen. Meanwhile, clingstone peaches are better for eating fresh, as they make less of a mess and hold more firm.

Dana Wagner, Todd’s sister and manager of the farm’s bistro, said she finds many customers prefer white peaches for dessert dishes due to their extremely sweet, perfume-like flavor, and yellow peaches for chutneys and more savory dishes. Todd, on the other hand, seemed to have an affinity for every peach, gushing over several of his favorite peach dishes (from a peach platter topped with mascarpone cheese, sliced almonds, honey and more to scoring and grilling peaches and pairing them with nearly everything) while explaining that

his favorite peach variety is whichever one he’s eating at the moment.

“They’re all really so different; they all have different perfumes to them, and they all have a different bite to them and different color,” Wagner said. “Some are nice and tangy and have that little bit of acid that hits on the back of your tongue and has a tart but sweet flavor, and then there’s others that have this really strong perfume to them and are just super baseline sweet. I’d be too hard pressed to pick just one.”

And despite his exuberance for peaches, Wagner made one thing clear: grocery store peaches will never compare to fresh, farm-grown peaches like those he works hard to grow at Applecrest.

“There’s absolutely zero comparison between a grocery store-bought, non-local peach and one that was harvested at the peak of ripeness and literally harvested and sold a thousand yards from where it was grown,” he said. “It’s just … the taste, the flavor, the aroma, it’s an entirely different beast. It’s almost like you’ve almost not even ate a peach before.”

Nectarines and plums

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Nectarines and plums are similar to peaches, but Wagner and Burnap pointed out several key differences between the three.

All three are stone fruits, meaning they have a pit in the center, and people often confuse peaches and nectarines, according to Burnap. Yet, he said, the major difference is the lack of fuzz on a nectarine.

“A lot of times customers and people will not like peaches because of the fuzzy skin, then we’ll point them in the direction of a nectarine, and that’s the only difference between a peach and a nectarine,” Burnap said.

Both fruits also grow very similarly on trees, but they each do have varying flavors and textures. To Wagner, this difference in flavor makes all the difference.

“I don’t want to denigrate my peaches in any way, shape or form, but I swear, our nectarines are my hands down, most favorite thing I grow,” Wagner said. “It’s just the perfect combination of that tanginess and sweetness and texture — they’re my favorite thing I grow. Unfortunately, I don’t have enough of them, I’ve got to plant more.”

Meanwhile, plums have several significant differences from peaches and nectarines, with their size being the most apparent.

Plums are smaller than peaches and nectarines and also grow very differently.

“The plums, I don’t even know how to describe them,” Burnap said. “They’re kind of in a category all by themselves to be honest with you.”

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Applecrest Farm Orchards holds three peach festivals each year: the Peach Celebration Kick-Off, Peach Festival and Just Peachy Celebration.

The Peach Celebration Kick-Off occurs on Saturday, Aug. 10, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

They provide free live music, tractor rides to the peach orchard, a beer garden, a multitude of fresh-fruit dessert options at their bistro and more. The Peach Festival happens on Saturday, Aug. 17, and Sunday, Aug. 18, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. both days. It is their 13th annual Peach Festival and includes many of the same features as the Kick-Off the weekend prior. The Just Peachy Celebration on Saturday, Aug. 24, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. carries on the zeal of the prior two celebration weekends with activities for kids such as face painting, bounce houses and more, as well as a visit from a local winery for the adults.

All three weekend festivals put an emphasis on the pick-your-own peaches, as many

varieties of peaches are at their peak ripeness during these three weeks. For Wagner, these weekends provide a much-needed break from farming and a chance for him to witness firsthand the fruits of his labor.

“I think probably one of the most rewarding things is just to see and get people out there into the orchards and to see families engaging with their food and where it comes from and actually who grew it,” Wagner said. “Even the most simple, ‘Hey, thanks, I had a really great time today and I’ve never picked peaches,’ and ‘Oh my god that was incredible.’ It’s a very, very small thing, but it’s pretty rewarding.

“Just that little acknowledgement that they had a great time and thanks for them coming out — I’m not looking for thanks, man, that’s not my point. I’m just saying, it’s nice that they were feeling that gratitude because it’s such a cool, great, fun experience, and you’re sharing it with your family all the more so.”

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3 ripe peaches, sliced and pitted 1/2 cup mascarpone, goat cheese, ricotta, or other soft cheese 3 tablespoons honey 1/3 cup almonds 1 tablespoon olive oil Sea salt to taste Fresh mint leaves for garnish

1/2 cup unsalted butter 1 cup all-purpose flour 2 cups sugar, divided 1 tablespoon baking powder Pinch of salt 1 cup milk 4 cups fresh peach slices 1 tablespoon lemon juice Ground cinnamon or nutmeg (optional) Melt butter in a 13- x 9-inch baking dish.

Combine flour, 1 cup sugar, baking powder, and salt; add milk, stirring just until dry ingredients are moistened. Pour batter over butter (do not stir). Bring remaining 1 cup sugar, peach slices, and lemon juice to a boil over high heat, stirring constantly; pour over batter (do not stir). Sprinkle with cinnamon, if desired. Bake at 375 degrees for 40 to 45 minutes or until golden brown.

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How to can peaches, plums and nectarines

How to freeze peaches, plums and nectarines Courtesy of Butternut Farm • Pick ripe fruit that’s not too firm not too mushy.

• Peel the fruit. This only applies to peaches unless you would prefer to remove the skin of the nectarine. An easy way to remove the skin is to place the peaches in boiling water for 30 to 60 seconds, then remove with a slotted spoon and place into ice water for about 2 minutes.

The skin should easily slide off.

• Slice the fruit and remove pits. You can freeze peaches in halves or slices.

• You can freeze in sugar or in fruit juice or water. Your fruit will retain color and flavor best if packed in sugar.

• To freeze in sugar: For each quart of halved or sliced fruit, combine 1/4 teaspoon of ascorbic acid (to preserve color) with 1/4 cup cold water. Sprinkle over fruit. Add 2/3 cup of white sugar for each quart of prepared fruit. Coat fruit well. Spoon fruit into container, leave a little space, seal, label and freeze.

• To freeze in water or fruit juice: Combine 1/4 teaspoon ascorbic acid per quart of fruit juice or water. Best juices are apple, white grape or peach. Spoon fruit into container, leaving space at the top. Pour juice or water over top of fruit covering the fruit. Seal, label and freeze.

• To freeze without additives (not recommended for plums): Spread fruit out on cookie sheet in a single layer. Freeze 24 hours. Peaches may darken. Pour fruit into freezer bag or container, label and return to freezer.

Syrup Options (This should fill about 9 pints; double recipe for quarts.)

Water: 7 cups water Fruit Juice: 7 cups fruit juice Very Light Syrup (10 percent): 6 cups water, 1 cup sugar Light Syrup (20 percent): 6 cups water, 2 cups sugar Medium Syrup (30 percent): 6 cups water, 3 cups sugar Heavy Syrup (40 percent): 6 cups water, 4 cups sugar Pick ripe fruit. You will need 5 good-size peaches or 10 plums to fill a quart jar.

Wash jars and make sure you have sterile lids.

Clean fruit and peel peaches. An easy way to remove the skin is to place the peaches in boiling water for 30 to 60 seconds, then remove with a slotted spoon and place into ice water for about 2 minutes. The skin should easily slide off. Slice fruit, remove pit and coat (peaches and nectarines) with lemon juice or ascorbic acid to prevent browning.

Choose syrup and boil. Keep syrup warm.

Fill bottom of jar with syrup. Fill jar will fruit and cover fruit with syrup leaving about 1/2 inch at the top.

Cover jars and boil. 25 minutes for pints 30 minutes for quarts.

Let cool and label.

manscorner.com) sells peaches at their farm Tendercrop Farms (123 Dover Point market that they grow on the farm. They are Road, Dover, 603-740-4920; 108 High Road, open Monday through Saturday from 8 a.m. to Newbury, Mass., 978-462-6972; 93 Main 7 p.m. and Sunday from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.

St., Wenham, Mass., 978-468-0041, tenderCider Hill Farm (45 Fern Avenue, Amescropfarm.com) has three locations and offers bury, 978-388-5525, ciderhill.com) offers around 10 varieties of pick-your-own peaches pick-your-own peaches from early August at its Dover and Newbury farms. They are open through September. They are open seven days 9 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. daily in Dover and Wenham a week from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. and 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily in Newbury.

Emery Farm (147 Piscataqua Road, Dur-

a stand set up in the parking lot. Their website is unclear whether they are currently selling peaches from the parking lot stand, but in the past, they have offered farm-grown peaches.

They are open daily 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.

day through Sunday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Local peach farms Applecrest Farm Orchards (133 Exeter Road, Hampton Falls, 603-926-3721, applecrest.com) offers over 20 varieties of pick-your-own peaches starting in early August and running through September. They are open 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily.

Butternut Farm (195 Meaderboro Road, Farmington, 603-335-4705, butternutfarm. net) offers over 20 varieties of pick-yourown peaches starting in late July and running through mid-September. They are open Tues-

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JESSE VAN DEINSE OWNER OF 1886 BARBERSHOP IN SOMERSWORTH Tell us a little about your business.

The shop is an American traditional barbershop with a unique twist. We specialize in classic and modern haircuts and hot towel face shaves.

What is the twist or theme of your place?

The shop also doubles as an oddities parlor. We buy and sell eclectic antiques. The shop often gets mistaken for a Halloween novelty shop. The walls are decorated floor to ceiling with the macabre. You’ll find anything from vintage monster masks and Masonic collectibles to funeral paraphernalia and vintage horror movie posters. Despite the scary theme, the shop is very inviting and we always have something new and interesting to look at.

How did you come up with this concept?

I’ve always been a collector. As a kid I was never good at sports and had zero musical talent, so my outlet was collecting. I always felt like I had to curate collections. It started with comic books and sports cards, and eventually it spawned into vintage original movie posters and just escalated from there.

Did you always want to be a barber?

In high school I started cutting hair as a hobby, and eventually that grew into my profession. When I decided to open the shop, I wanted something different from every other cookie-cutter barbershop. I wanted to cross my two passions into one and thus 1886 Barbershop was born. The shop name comes from our location. We are located in what was once Somersworth’s train station, which was built in 1886.

How long have you been open?

The shop opened February of this year.

How has business been so far? Any surprises along the way?

So far Somersworth has been very good to us. The first few weeks were a little slow, but it didn’t take long for us to accrue a good clientele. We do things a little different than other shops in the area.

How are you different?

We are mostly appointment-driven. We do take walk-ins when we have availability, but we encourage our clients to book at 1886barbershop.com. Traditionally, barbershops are strictly walk-ins only, so our clients appreciate the fact they can book online, come in and get a cut or beard trim and not have to wait for an hour.

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What is the most fun part about your job?

I absolutely love what I do. I love the tradition of barbering. My favorite part is getting to chat with clients. I love being able to connect with my clients and hear about their lives. I always say everyone has a history and a past much like the antiques in the shop and I love hearing about that history.

When not working, what do you do for fun?

When I’m not in the shop, I’m spending time with my wife Alex and our beautiful baby boy, Sidney. We are constantly on the hunt for new treasures for our personal collection and for the shop. We’re currently decking out our son’s room in vintage magician posters and original circus posters.

Are you from the area originally?

I’m a New Hampshire native. I grew up in Thornton, New Hampshire. After a six-year stint in Florida, I moved back to New Hampshire in 2006.

If not, where from and what made you come here?

I moved to New Hampshire’s Seacoast in 2010 and have been here since. I love this area. It literally has everything I want with Boston and Portland only an hour away in either direction. The ocean is extremely close and the mountains are a short ride — it’s perfect.

Looking forward, any big plans for you or your business?

In the future, I hope to open a second location. I currently have my good friend and fellow barber Joey Visconte working with me and the plan is to open a second shop and have Joey manage the day-to-day at the 1886 Barbershop.

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By Caleb Jagoda Where I went: Scoot-n-Around, 210 Ocean Blvd., No. 3, Seabrook, scootnaround.com, 603-380-3966 What it is: Scoot-n-Around offers scooter rentals along the coast of Seabrook just miles down the road from Hampton Beach. They offer the Honda Ruckus, which is a more conventional moped/scooter, and the Scoot Coupe, which is a two-seat low-rider that’s similar to a go-kart. Their rentals are $40 per hour, $90 per half day and $175 per full day with $25 for every additional hour for the Honda Ruckus, and $50 per hour, $120 per half day and $220 per full day with $30 for every additional hour for the Scoot Coupe.

What I did: I need to preface this by saying I’m no expert on anything to do with wheels. I’m terrible on roller blades, took abnormally long to learn how to ride a bike in my younger years and caused over $1,000 worth of damage to my girlfriend’s car during my senior year of high school — while her car was parked. With this wheel deficiency, I’ve learned to become cautious. I’m by far the slowest driver of all my friends and I only drive fast when I need to. I truly have no need for speed, or even an interest.

I’m saying all of this because I went to Scoot-n-Around in Seabrook ready to take one of their Scoot Coupes out thinking I would putter down back roads and enjoy the scenery at a slow speed. While this is absolutely an option with a scooter rental, I soon learned that their scooters are no joke: They can hit speeds of almost 60 mph and are legal to drive down a real road, complete with license plates and the whole nine. While I am cautious on wheels, I can’t help being curious; why go 30 when it’s my job to test this stallion of a scooter out? I probably should let the horses run if they’ve got the legs, so to speak.

As I heard the rundown from Rory, a Scoot-n-Around employee, I was a little scared. I was going to be driving down a four-lane road essentially six inches off

the ground. I wasn’t so much of a dramatic scared as much as thinking that I didn’t plan on dying on a Tuesday in Seabrook.

My fears were alleviated once Rory showed me how to drive the Scoot Coupe and I found it to ride pretty smooth.

After receiving my helmet, putting on glasses and hopping in the highlighteryellow Coupe, I scooted off, headed for a developed sideroad before hitting the four-lane. I figured I should get the hang of things so I didn’t disrupt traffic and get heckled, so off to the back roads I went in my neon clown car.

Down the back roads, I was confused; they said it could hit speeds above 50 mph, but here I was, only just breaking 30. Must be an older scooter, I thought, no big deal at all. I was still having a good time driving down the empty back street and breathing in the ocean air. After about 15 minutes I pulled onto the fourlane at 30 (it was a 35, so no big thing), confident but alert.

After a small stretch of road with things going well, I pulled into a parking lot to turn around and head back the other way. There was a minor incline from the parking lot to the road, but nothing crazy by any means. Yet the Scoot Coupe just couldn’t handle it. I revved the throttle again and again to no avail.

Dismayed and disappointed, I called Scoot-n-Around and explained the problem. They immediately asked me if the parking brake was on; I checked, and yes, it was on. I had been driving it the whole time thus far with the parking brake on!

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No wonder I could barely reach over 30.

I laughed at myself, apologized to Rory on the phone and attempted to start the Coupe back up. After a couple tries, it just wouldn’t go. At this point, instead of calling, I just walked over to the parking lot as the one I was in was adjacent to Scoot-n-Around. Rory came over and

simply informed me, “You left the kill switch on from when you turned it off to call me.” I laughed again, amazed at my own vehicular stupidity. Wheels really just aren’t my forte.

Rory left me with the Scoot Coupe, which now worked perfectly fine, and I sped off on to the road. I was now able to hit 50 confidently and with no worries, and felt secure driving down the fourlane. After a small stretch of road, I turned off down another back road to see what it could do with only me and the concrete.

I clocked in at slightly above 50, and it didn’t feel that fast; it was an exceedingly smooth ride. I figured going 50 would be terrifying six inches off the ground, but in fact it felt like a gentle cruise down the road and felt good to keep up with ongoing traffic. Plus, it was hilarious to keep up with the huge trucks and vans.

Who should try this: Anyone looking for a fun activity to do on the coast on a nice day out. It’s great for hot weather, when you want some wind to cool down the sun’s rays, and would be super fun to take out with friends or family and ride around to different beaches. Rory told me that people often take them all the way to Kittery or Salisbury, and after my ride I can see why. It was far less the dangerous experience I thought it could be and more a fun and unique way to spend a day of leisure along the coast.

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“We get phone calls in January and February every year, and one of the first questions is, ‘Can you tell me when the Children’s Festival is? Because we want to plan our family vacation during that week,’” Hampton Area Chamber of Commerce president John Nyhan said. “It’s a great way of reiterating that Hampton Beach is family-friendly.”

The event is hosted by the Hampton Area Chamber of Commerce in partnership with

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“Especially on vacation, the kids are always looking for something to do,” Hampton Beach Village District coordinator Maureen Buckley said. “There are a lot of people who rent their cottages specifically during this week because they know the kids are going to be kept busy from Monday to Friday.”

Kicking off the festivities at 10 a.m. on Monday is a show by Dover-based magician BJ Hickman on the famous Seashell Stage, followed by five days of special family-friendly events sure to delight kids of all ages.

“We’re going to have a fun-filled week at Hampton Beach,” Nyhan said.

Some of the week’s exciting activities include rainbow sand art, face painting, storytelling, a bumper sticker contest and much more. Every day at noon, festival attendees will have the chance to enter to win prizes donated by the Hampton Beach Casino, and countless other free goodies, including coloring books and ice cream, will be offered throughout the week.

For those deterred by the heat, the Hampton Beach Children’s Festival will also be hosting a few special nighttime events meant to entertain the entire family. On Monday at dusk, catch Spider-Man: Into the SpiderVerse during Movie Night on the Beach,

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Tuesday, Aug. 13 10 a.m. - McGuirk’s Breakfast Adventure 11 a.m. - Face painting and beach games Noon - Games on the beach with Luv & Play 1 p.m. - Emmanuel Duo: Fun, upbeat, popular tunes performed in a new style 1:45 p.m. - Free ice cream treats for the children provided by Hampton Casino 2 p.m. - Rainbow sand art - Make a memory to take home!

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1 p.m. - Touch-A-Hampton-Truck: Explore a Hampton fire truck, tow truck and more!

2 p.m. - Mad Science: Entertaining with amazing science 3 p.m. - Kite Flying & More On the Beach with Exeter Hospital United in Wellness 9:30 p.m. - Hampton Beach Fireworks Thursday, Aug. 15 10 a.m. - Fran Flynn, Magician Extraordinaire 11 a.m. - Blue Ocean Society Marine Live Touch Tank Noon - Irish Dancers from McDonough-Grimes 1 p.m. - NH Academy of Performing Arts: Talented dancers take the stage!

2 p.m. - Extreme Air Jump Rope Team 3 p.m. - NH Academy of Performing Arts: a second and new dance performance Friday, Aug. 16 10:15 a.m. - Parade participants meet at the Hampton Beach State Park South. Wear your best costume or choose from ones provided by the parade.

11 a.m. - Children’s costume parade with the roaming railroad Noon - Grand Finale at the Seashell Stage Every child receives a prize!

12:30 p.m. - Pictures with Santa at Sand & Santa

or enjoy a full fireworks show at Hampton Beach on Wednesday at 9:30 p.m.

One new addition to this year’s lineup includes Wednesday’s kite-flying demonstration hosted by Exeter Hospital at 3 p.m. on the beach. Kids will be given kites and taught how to fly them as part of the hospital’s Kites Against Cancer program.

Also making its Children’s Festival debut will be the Touch-A-Truck program on Wednesday at 1 p.m., where children will have the opportunity to get up close and personal with some of their favorite emergency and working vehicles. There’s also a new culinary demonstration on the schedule as McGuirk’s Restaurant demos pancake-making on Tuesday at 10 a.m.

Most of the week’s events, however, will be tried-and-true crowd favorites.

“We rely on some of the things that have been successful every year,” said Nyhan.

This includes a free round of minigolf for ages 14 and under at Buc’s Lagoon on Monday at 2 p.m. (participants must register to play by 1:30 p.m. at the Beach Chamber Information Center), and beach games on Tuesday at 11 a.m.

In keeping with tradition, the week will close with the annual costume parade on Friday. The grand finale begins with a costume contest at 10:15 a.m at Hampton Beach State Park South. Children are encouraged to show up with their most creative costume ideas (children without a costume can borrow one provided by parade volunteers) and prizes will be awarded in a number of categories, including most patriotic and best group costume.

No child goes home empty-handed, however.

After the parade makes its way down Ocean Boulevard to the Seashell Stage, every costumed attendee will be given a prize, donated by one of many local businesses, for their participation.

For many kids, the parade is the highlight of the festival and it’s a chance for them to show off their creativity and break out of their shell.

“Some of these kids have never been in a parade and now they’re leading one,” said Nyhan. “They’re in it rather than on the sidelines.”

The Children’s Festival solidifies Hampton Beach’s reputation as a place where parents and kids of all ages can come to relax and have fun, Nyhan said.

“Having this festival every year in August really highlights how important it is for us to continue to advocate that Hampton Beach is a family-friendly beach,” he said.

“It’s just about encouraging people to come out and get involved in it,” Buckley said. “It’s a lot of fun.”

For more event details and for a full list of events and times, visit hamptonchambers. com or hamptonbeach.org, or call 603-9268717. Every event is free. All outdoor events are weather permitting.

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Starting a tradition North Hampton hosts Old Home Day

ing a three-legged race and a wheelbarrow race, doughnut and pie eating contests and more.

“It isn’t necessarily a thing where a bunch of booths [and vendors] come in,” Manzi said. “It’s more community- and family-oriented.”

On Atlantic Avenue at the North Hampton Public Library, the Stone Building and the Town Hall, there will be a Historical Society exhibit about the town’s first librarian, Levi Fogg, plus a cookie bakeoff and bingo games for prizes.

At Dearborn Park, tennis coach Mark Moulton will be holding a free tennis clinic at 1 p.m. for those 6 years old and up.

Moulton has never run an open clinic like this before, and has the help of some current and former recreation players to make the clinics run smoothly.

“I think this is a chance for us to meet the community and for some of the kids to pay forward some of the opportunities they got from me and the program,” Moulton said. “I will cover opportunities for everyone to either get free instruction, play games and have information on how to get started or get involved in tennis, if that’s what they’re looking for.”

And later on in the day there will be a celebration at Centennial Hall, as well as a performance by the Baha Brothers, a Jimmy Buffet and Beach Boys-style band, at the North Hampton Bandstand.

“I don’t want it to look like you’re at any town fair,” Manzi said. “I want it to look like North Hampton.” — Caleb Jagoda

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In North Hampton, there has never been a consistent, annual old home day — at least not in recent memory. As Recreation Director Joe Manzi remembers, the town held events for its 250th anniversary and maybe even had an occasional old home day many years ago. But nothing has yet to stick — and he’s hoping to change that.

North Hampton Old Home Day will be held Saturday, Aug. 10, with a rain date of Sunday, Aug. 11, running all day from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

“That’s what we’re trying to do: get it off the ground and really emphasize the community part of it,” Manzi said. “We have no problem with starting it on a smaller scale and just getting the community involved with it and then leaving people wanting more and wanting to add ideas to it and so forth once they can kind of see the vision of what it can be.”

Manzi has planned to include myriad events for families, ranging from children’s activities in the morning at the North Hampton Elementary School to more family and adult-oriented happenings on Atlantic Avenue in the late morning and early afternoon. All events are free.

At the North Hampton School, the events will include a bike rodeo and bike safety check, a DJ jam, face painting, Betty’s Kitchen food truck, an ice cream truck, a cornhole tournament, open kickball, soccer and dodgeball games, ballet and hip-hop dancing classes, a dunk tank, a super soaker send-off with the fire department and a number of children’s competitions, includ-

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CAR TALK

These ‘dented’ doors do no good Dear Car Talk: We have a 2017 Jeep Cherokee with the dented-door look.

Is this a fashion statement, or does it have a genuine purpose?

We live on a dirt

By Ray Magliozzi road that gets muddy in winter. The shape of the Jeep’s doors splashes mud onto the door handles. We do not have this problem with any other vehicles. Thanks. — Sam We call it the “sunken cheeks” look.

Automotive fashion is like every other type of fashion. Once somebody has success with some odd twist or look, everyone else follows.

The sides of cars used to be slabs. A crease or an indentation was relatively rare, because it was hard to manufacture. We felt fortunate enough that the doors didn’t fall off when we opened them. Making them look fancy never crossed our minds. But as manufacturing got more sophisticated, we started seeing more creases, lines and bulges. Then it was off to the races.

Now, pretty much every new car has a rising belt line, a crease under the win-

dows, a huge front grill, bulging fenders and some kind of carved out doors, like your Cherokee has.

Eventually, this trend will get out of hand, and some carmaker will buck the trend and make an old-fashioned, slab-sided car that sells like crazy. Then everyone else will go back to slabs. This is as inevitable as watching lapels widen and thin, or watching your grandmother’s ugly furniture show up on a trendy magazine cover at the supermarket.

I don’t think it has anything to do with aerodynamics. It’s possible a “scooped out” door may have an effect on the handling of a Lamborghini when it’s going 170 miles an hour. But it’s not going to change anything on a Jeep Cherokee doing 70 on the highway.

So, if the only downside is the mud splattering, Sam, you need to go back to your dealer and buy the official Jeep doorhandle mud rag for $39.95. Don’t worry; your next Jeep Cherokee will look different.

Dear Car Talk: I have a 2009 Toyota RAV4. The check engine light came on a year ago. I took it to the dealer, and they said it was an oxy-

gen sensor. I had it repaired, which wasn’t cheap.

Everything was fine for a few months, and then the check engine light came on again intermittently until finally it stayed on all the time.

I went back to the dealer and was told it’s definitely the “bank one catalytic converter.” They want $1,200 to fix it. They said if it’s not fixed, it will eventually cause the car to stop.

I checked with my local mechanic who says it won’t make the car stop even if I never have it replaced.

I can’t afford to get it replaced. Who is right? — Gary Your local mechanic is closer to being right than the dealer is, Gary.

Your check engine light came on because your catalytic converter’s efficiency has dropped below what it needs to be. It’s not doing its job of cleaning up your emissions anymore, and it needs to be replaced.

That could be because you’ve used up your catalyst, or because a piece of it broke off and ended up in your muffler. Or on the interstate.

If your converter ever got completely plugged up and blocked, then it would

prevent the car from running. That’s what your dealer is saying. But I think he’s being alarmist. An inefficient converter is not the same as a plugged-up converter. Although it’s possible that if you wait long enough, someday you’ll have both, Gary.

The more pressing issue is that most states have vehicle emissions inspection laws. And your car won’t pass inspection with a failing catalytic converter. So, if you expect to drive this car beyond your next inspection date, you have to get it fixed.

But you don’t have to get it fixed at the dealer.

You can ask your local mechanic to get you a price on an aftermarket converter. It may be half as expensive. And it’ll probably last half as long as the factory converter.

But that may be good enough, given the age of your car and your repair budget.

The only caution is that, in our experience, some aftermarket converters don’t work well enough to turn off the check engine light. So, ask your mechanic to use an aftermarket converter brand that he’s had success with on other Toyotas.

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AT SUE’S KOREAN KITCHEN A resident of Stratham for more than 20 years, Sue (Suncha) Baker can remember bringing her children to the now-closed Screamers at the Stratham Plaza for ice cream when they were young. She knew, even more than a decade ago, that when her children were grown she would like to own her own restaurant. That vision became a reality when Sue’s Korean Kitchen (74 Portsmouth Ave., Stratham, 777-7604, sueskoreankitchen.com) opened last year in the same Stratham Plaza that Baker and her family have visited during all those years. The restaurant serves authentic options from Baker’s native South Korea, like bulgogi (marinated beef with onions, carrots and scallions, served with rice); kimchi pancakes with onions; kalbi (Korean-style barbecue short ribs served with white rice on a sizzling plate); and japchae (stir-fried glass noodles with onions, carrots and seasonal greens). A variety of other beef, pork or vegetarian dishes are also available. In 2014, Baker said she had a vendor tent at the Stratham Fair, serving bulgogi and rice, and she said some visitors to the restaurant have even claimed to remember her from there years later. The Scene recently caught up with Baker to talk about some of her personal favorite dishes.

How long has Sue’s Korean Kitchen been around?

We just celebrated one year. We opened last year, on July 5.

What makes Sue’s Korean Kitchen unique?

Everything here is made fresh every day. It’s not like fast food or anything.

We prepare and use everything every morning, and it’s very fresh and also very low-calorie and healthy.

What is your personal favorite dish?

The bibimbap, which is a mixed vegetable dish. It’s a rice bowl that’s served hot with all kinds of veggies, so you get zucchini, mushrooms, seasonal greens and beansprouts. It’s very healthy. It’s like nutrition inside one bowl.

What is a dish that everyone should try?

There are a lot of things! I would want them to try the bibimbap, because you can get one with meat, one with just veg-

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etables and a gluten-free one. We also have the kalbi short rib and the glass noodle japchae. It’s optional with a meat or a vegetable, so you can have either beef, tofu or [vegetables] with it. The spicy pork is also very unique. A lot of people love it. It seems like a really hot item around here.

What is an essential skill to running a restaurant?

You have to love the cooking and love the people. When I was at the Stratham

Fair, I served a lot of people in small groups, and I find out then just how much I loved it. I just loved people’s reactions to my food.

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McKenzie’s Farm McKenzie’s Farm was started in 1990 by the McKenzie family and is a second-generation farm on top of Plummer’s Ridge in Milton. They offer pick-your-own raspberries, blueberries, peaches, tomatoes and apples at their Milton location, and they sell their produce at a farmstand in Wakefield and at five local farmers markets: Durham on Mondays from 2:15 to 6 p.m., Rochester on Tuesdays from 3 to 6 p.m., Dover on Wednesdays from 2:15 to 6 p.m., Exeter on Thursdays from 2:15 to 6 p.m. and Portsmouth on Saturdays from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.

“Our biggest thing is our tomatoes because we’re one of the first farms to have them in this area,” said Brooke Marston, who has been working for McKenzie’s Farm two years at the farmers markets.

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nice and everyone’s really excited to be here.

And it’s been really great to get to know other farmers and stuff and hear them talk about things they’re passionate about; it’s really, really cool to me.”

Along with their farmers market visits and farm stands, they have a bakery and garden center. Their bakery makes daily apple cider doughnuts that were recently named the second best apple cider doughnuts in New Hampshire by WMUR Channel 9. They also sell baguettes, ciabatta bread, whole grain bread, Italian bread, crusty boules and Valley View Orchard pies at their bakery.

Meanwhile, their garden center consists of a

greenhouse with hanging basket collections, homemade collections, high-bush blueberry plants, low-maintenance fruit that will grow in a backyard and a vast vegetable selection.

Marston said the farm has found much success with its variety of pick-your-own fruits.

“In the fall, apples are our big thing,” Marston said.

Earlier this year McKenzie’s Farm saw some early-season trouble in the growth of fruits, but Marston said that this has since dissipated.

“It’s been a thing for pretty much every farm where we’re pretty late with fruits and stuff, but now that everything’s coming out, people are really excited about it,” Marston said. “It’s been pretty good and we’re kind of bouncing back.”

Marston said that buying local and supporting small businesses like McKenzie’s Farm is not only meaningful to farms and their workers, but also has a big impact on the consumers for a variety of reasons.

“It really just enriches the community, just being able to see your work literally feeds people and keeps them going,” Marston said.

“It’s really nice to be able to go out in the field and pick your own strawberries and see where your food really comes from.”

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What’s in a label?

Wines have fun with their bottle billboards Wine labels can be intimidating for some.

How does one read them to understand what is in the bottle? Selection of a wine is usually based on what is on the label — and sometimes on the points awarded by Wine Spectator.

European wines, notably French, Spanish, German and Italian wine labels, are fairly predictable because of strong regulation. One can easily determine the name of the producer, whether the wine is of top quality, where the wine is bottled and its vintage, or when the grapes were harvested.

Some wine labels have artwork, a trend that started a few years back. A number of purchases were likely made on the quality and appeal of the artwork on the label. The artwork can be representational or abstract; photographic images, or based on pulp fiction covers.

American wine labels are far less structured than the European labels and as inventive as the artwork labels, and some can be downright amusing! Americans have become ingenious in tapping into some of the mystery of wine, democratizing it and at times poking fun at it.

The New Hampshire Liquor and Wine Outlets carry a variety of these lightheartedlabeled wines, and several can be found in the Price Busters racks.

A Proper Claret (originally priced at $19.99, reduced to $9.99) is a great example of self-effacing humor. This wine comes

from Santa Cruz and is produced by Bonny Doon Vineyards. Their website loves to poke fun at cabernet sauvignon and its hold on the American palate. In fact this wine thumbs its nose at the movie Sideways and is a blend of 40 percent merlot, 24 percent petit verdot, 21 percent cabernet sauvignon, 11 percent cabernet franc and 4 percent malbec. The wine label pokes fun at British men’s clubs and carries on in one-sided conversations on the back panel of the label about what can be considered a “proper claret.” Truthfully, the wine is quite good, as it starts with a “soft” merlot, instead of a fruit-forward cabernet sauvignon. To the nose, there are subtle notes of plums and flowers. To the tongue there is a bright, tart pomegranate flavor, along with some wood tannins. By design, this wine is lighter in alcohol than many other red wines, at only 13.2 percent. It is a great dinner wine.

High on the Hog (originally $21.99, reduced to $11.99) is a rich, robust wine based on blends from the Rhone valley. It is a blend of 41 percent syrah, 31 percent grenache and 25 percent mourvèdre. This wine is produced by McPrice (Mac) Myers of Paso Robles, Central Coast. This is a wine to bring to a backyard barbecue of ribs or lamb, as it has notes of plum, mocha, licorice and blackberries. On the palate, it is Rainier cherries, dark chocolate and spice, followed with a long finish. This wine will stand up to foods with strong rich or “gamey” flavors, and with a name like “High on the Hog” will impress

your host.

And in a subtle twist of sentiment, we have Humble Pie (originally $16.99, reduced to $8.99). This wine is a cabernet sauvignon, made from grapes that hail from the Central Coast. It is blended and produced by the BNA Wine Group, based in St. Helena, Napa Valley. BNA Wine Group was founded by three men who share a passion for great wine and great value. They source their grapes carefully and continuously test their blends to ensure a diverse line of award-winning wines. This wine can be paired with grilled beef tenderloin and vegetables, or a grilled duck and mushroom risotto. Its “humility” will pair well with these rich foods.

S, think of wine bottle labels as not only information about what is in the bottle, but also cultural enrichment and entertainment because of good art or engaging humor.

Fred Matuszewski is a local foodie and wine geek, interested in the cultivation of the multiple strains and varieties of grapes and the industry of wine production and sales.

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In Almost Midnight, Maine game warden Mike Bowditch is just trying to go fishing on his vacation. But it’s not in the cards. This is a man who has a lot on his mind, even when he tries to get away.

While trying his best to catch salmon, he’s honor-bound to leave the riverside in favor of responding to an urgent request from his longtime best friend, Billy Cronk — whom Mike reluctantly had to arrest and subsequently put behind bars just after Billy had saved Mike’s life. So yes, Mike can’t exactly ignore Billy.

When he meets with Billy at the prison, Billy has a strange and extremely risky request: that Mike look into the past of a new female prison guard. Mike knows looking into another officer would raise red flags and he denies Billy, despite his pleas.

Spoiler alert: He’s still going to look into her past, because not only was this denial a betrayal of Billy but it was also a betrayal of Billy’s wife and five kids, who do expect Mike to step up on Billy’s behalf. Before he can really dive in, this prison guard, Billy, and two other inmates are involved in an incident that leaves the female guard stabbed, Billy the hero and ultimately two other inmates dead.

At first, and understandably, you’d think this tale is going to be about unraveling the mystery of what happened with the incident at the prison, and yes, Doiron will get to that, but that becomes a secondary narrative to an extent.

That’s because Mike gets a call from a colleague that a wolf-dog hybrid, Shadow, whom Mike used to take care of, has been shot and is barely alive. As I jumped into the Mike Bowditch series in the middle, there’s clearly a meaningful history between Mike and Shadow that is never quite fully revealed in Almost Midnight — and that’s OK. But it’s clear that the reader needs to care about this wolf.

The real mystery in this story is figuring out who shot Shadow, one of perhaps two wolves still living in Maine at the time, with, of all things, a crossbow. That mystery takes Mike to the Sandy River Valley to meet with bootleggers, challenging and rather unsavory locals, and a small community of Amish farmers.

All the while, Mike is also working back channels to figure out what exactly happened with Billy at the prison.

Read by narrator Henry Leyva, this is a fun and suspenseful mystery that takes the reader from inside the prison walls to the backcountry of Maine in a heartbeat.

Admittedly, it did take me a minute to come around to the narration, which was

perfectly fine, but it’s challenging to hear the suspense, urgency and danger in the language with an authentic Maine accent doing the telling: “Ayuh.”

Almost Midnight did make me want to check out more of these Mike Bowditch novels. Jumping in in the middle of the series, naturally, I felt like I was missing out on key details and occurrences that helped shape Mike’s character. I did want to know more at times, particularly regarding Mike’s relationship with Shadow and what made that so significant — he essentially goes full CSI to investigate the shooting.

Beyond his relationship with Shadow, Mike has a complicated relationship with just about everyone: Billy, Billy’s wife, his girlfriend, whom he can’t quite commit to, and a number of his colleagues.

Doiron does a nice job of articulating how Mike’s decision-making is impacted on all sides. The right choice isn’t all that obvious, and every direction seems to carry consequences.

Sometimes a mystery story can flow at an almost breakneck speed where you can’t really appreciate the twists and turns. With Almost Midnight, Doiron slows things down so you can take in the landscape as you go. That’s not to say there aren’t twists — there certainly are — and I would classify this as a pageturner, but you won’t walk away from this with a case of whiplash.

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Tuesdays at Salisbury

Beach offers movies, stories, crafts and more There are still three Tuesdays left to take advantage of Salisbury Beach’s free family-friendly activities, where kids can listen to stories by the beach, participate in crafts and other activities, and then catch a movie on the sand behind the Broadway stage on the boardwalk.

“It’s been a way to get into the revitalization of our beautiful beach area and make it more family friendly,” said Joan Cox, the children’s librarian at Salisbury Public Library, who puts together the Beach Story Time every week.

Tuesdays start with the story and crafts at 10 a.m. at the Salisbury Beach Center. Cox usually brings along Thor, the library’s therapy dog.

“We also raffle off a couple of books each week to make it more exciting,” she said.

Then, from 10:45 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. there are kid entertainers on the Broadway Mall.

Movies start around sunset, which means start times will progressively earlier as summer winds down. The next show is Incredibles 2 on Tuesday, Aug. 13, with a start time of 7:45 p.m. The last two movies

of the summer are Jurassic Park on Aug. 20 and Aquaman on Aug. 27.

Beach Story Time and Movie Night both began three summers ago. In the winter of 2016 and 2017, the town of Salisbury took an in-depth look at the beach area and thought about what could be done to improve it.

“We wanted to figure out what worked and what didn’t,” said Lisa Pearson, the planning director for the town of Salisbury.

“We began working with a committee of interested business owners, residents, and Projects For Public Spaces to discuss what we could do to make people feel welcome.”

Offering free entertainment to guests and residents seemed to be the best idea.

The movies in particular have been popular, with all ages and an average of 75 people each week. Depending on the week, there is a good mix of locals and tourists waiting on the beach for the sun to set every Tuesday night.

“It’s a fun and different way to interact with people from our community, as well as people who may just be visiting for a week,” said Cox. One particular movie, fitting for the

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beach, is played annually: Jaws.

“We show Looney Tunes cartoons for an hour prior to Jaws [in case the] audience may not be OK with the content later,” Pearson said.

For future summers, Pearson would like the event to grow and see more families attend the Tuesday programming. The

town is looking at bigger screens to make the movies more accessible for when there are larger crowds, and may have to make other adjustments later on.

“If the crowd gets too big, we’ll figure it out,” Pearson said. “It would be a great problem to have.”

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The roots of Jamaican music go back further than Bob Marley and Johnny Nash, or even Desmond Dekker, whose 1968 hit “Israelites” was the first taste of the island’s music for much of the world. Prior to all that, before Jamaica had gained its independence from Britain even, singer Alton Ellis recorded with producer Coxsone Dodd at Studio One, early home to many vital reggae artists.

In the early 1970s, Ellis’s “Get Ready to Rock Steady” named an entire movement.

Bass player Courtney Panton, a first-generation Jamaican-American, performed with Ellis in his band Kingston Crew. He and his wife had three sons, and in their teens Panton steered each toward a different instrument: Courtney Jr. took up drums, Tahir found keyboards, and Stephen Suckarie picked up a guitar.

Toward the end of Ellis’s life, all four Pantons played in Kingston Crew. After Ellis died, the name changed to New Kingston in tribute. Since the release of a debut album in 2010, the Brooklyn band has become a force in reggae, with a sound that melds urban influences to roots music.

Courtney Panton Jr. is a whirlwind of energy behind the kit, singing, rapping and dancing on his stool. He frequently DJs, and acts as New Kingston’s spokesperson. In a recent phone interview he spoke of the band’s mission and an upcoming show at Salisbury’s SurfSide ocean bar.

“There are so many things that we think about every day,” he said. “But our common goal is the music keeping us together as a family more than anything.”

They began playing together in middle and high school, jamming in their Brooklyn basement. This offered a way to keep them from playing in the streets.

“It was at a deciding point, a definition point,” Panton said, recalling when his dad brought home a bunch of instruments and told each boy to pick one. “Injecting music right there at that moment was like alright, this is cool [and] he actually paid us to practice … so we don’t have to get a job.”

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Earth, Wind & Fire’s “Fantasy.” Eventually, after shake-out shows in cabarets and neighborhood parties, they were writing originals. When New Kingston released its first album, it was fittingly named In the Streets.

Their 2013 follow-up contained another nod to their father’s influence; it was called Kingston University.

“A lot of people don’t know our past history … with his extensive background, he pretty much put us in college in terms of that,” Panton said, noting that many of the genre’s greats were also his peers.

“More like friends and family; we got the opportunity to meet them and play for a lot of them. It kind of seasoned us.”

In 2014 they signed with Easy Star Records, and the following January they released Kingston City, a breakout effort that hit No. 1 on the Billboard Top Reggae Album charts. A Kingston Story: Come From Far arrived two years later.

Made in a Brooklyn nightclub during a tour break, it reflected the band’s “Brooklyn, Jamaica” live show energy.

Panton said a new album is in the planning stages and will be a more deliberate effort than the last one, a five-day jam distilled into a record’s worth of songs.

“We played everything like we used to back in the day, and got like 40 jams out of it,” he said of the band’s previous disc.

“We kind of laid the ideas out and just chopped it down.”

Asked about the potential pitfalls of being a family band, Panton laughed and called unity part of the common goal.

“Every man is a lion, that’s a saying… but we try to understand each other,” he said. “That’s the thing; we’re a family, we’re gonna be together for our lives, so we gotta figure it out.”

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• Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Progress!

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• Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Question authority. You might as well, because the authorities want to question you.

• Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): This week will bring a major breakout moment.

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• Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20): Smile and the world smiles with you. Cry, and the world just laughs.

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If you’re trying to smuggle a halfkilo of cocaine through airport security, you might want to try harder than an unnamed middle-aged man from Colombia, who was detained in late June at Barcelona-El Prat airport in Spain, according to Spanish police.

The man arrived at the airport on a flight from Bogota and seemed nervous — and no wonder, what with a comically “oversized toupee” under his hat, Reuters reported. Spanish police searched him and found a bundle of cocaine, worth about $34,000, taped to his head.

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Four Australian kids took running away from home to a new level on July 13 when they wrote a goodbye note and absconded with cash, fishing gear and an SUV belonging to one of their parents.

The three boys and one girl, aged 10 to 14, left Rockhampton in Queensland and headed south to Grafton, a trip of more than 600 miles. Along the way, they twice bought gas without paying and survived a short police chase in New South Wales, which was terminated by the highway patrol “due to age of the driver and road conditions,” Acting Police Inspector Darren Williams told Fox News. Around 10:30 p.m. on July 14, police finally caught up with the kids, who locked the doors and refused to exit the car. An officer broke a window with a baton to gain entry. The young thieves will be charged, but they couldn’t be questioned until their parents showed up.

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the police station (having been arrested for driving on a suspended license), he admitted that he did have some narcotics hidden between his buttocks.

Indeed, Fox 43 reported, McKay produced more than a dozen small baggies, including: a baggie of crack, eight baggies of heroin, two baggies of Molly, a baggie of marijuana, 12 Lortab pills and 12 Oxycodone pills.

ed, Bridenolph hit him in the head with the box of frozen snacks. Taking his show on the road, Bridenolph headed next door to a Wendy’s restaurant, where he slapped a woman. When police arrived, they struggled to handcuff Bridenolph, but ultimately arrested him for robbery, second-degree assault, resisting arrest, public intoxication and disorderly conduct.

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The New York Post reported on July 14 that more than 4,000 Swedes have willingly had microchips implanted in their hands to replace credit cards and cash. The chips also help people monitor their health and can be programmed to allow access into buildings. Jowan Osterlund, a former body piercer who pioneered the chips, says the technology is safe. But British scientist Ben Libberton, based in Sweden, said he worries that people aren’t considering the potential dangers, including the unwitting dissemination of data about a person. “Do I get a letter from my insurance company saying premiums are going up before I know I’m ill?” he wondered.

Nearly a year after chef Xiu Bin Wang, 33, was found dead in his room above China Chef carryout restaurant in Brockenhurst, Hampshire, England, police are still trying to figure

out how he died, Metro News reported. He apparently suffered a “forceful blow” to the head, and officials first fingered Zhu Long Guo, a colleague at the restaurant who admitted to striking Wang with a ladle during an altercation. “A ladle was seized, and there was a thorough investigation,” Detective Constable Brad Wanless reported at an inquest on July 11. But the coroner could not make a definite determination: “I do not accept that there is a clear causal link between the admitted blow with the ladle and the death of Mr. Wang,” senior coroner Grahame Short concluded.

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Rapper, sports agent and self-proclaimed “Mr. Alabama” Kelvin James Dark, 37, of Talladega, Alabama, was arrested in Atlanta, Georgia, on July 10 after allegedly throwing multiple kilograms of suspected methamphetamine off a high-rise balcony onto a street below. In a press release titled “It’s Raining Meth,” the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said its agents were searching the property as part of a smuggling investigation when the drugs went overboard. Agents were able to recover the drugs, valued at an estimated $250,000, and also found two semi-automatic rifles, a handgun, marijuana valued at $60,000 and a “substantial” amount of cash, AL.com reported. Dark and 33-year-old Tiffany Peterson of Atlanta were arrested for trafficking meth and marijuana, among other charges.

• A Delta Airlines flight from Puerto Rico to New York was forced to return to San Juan on July 3 after Carlos Ramirez, 30, “became unruly,” Reuters reported. “I am God!” Ramirez shouted, according to Puerto Rican police.

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